:00:13. > :00:21.Trump pledges to bring millions of factory jobs back to the US.
:00:22. > :00:29.But who really took them - Mexicans, or machines?
:00:30. > :00:32.Plus knock off, get outta here and go home early.
:00:33. > :00:35.Japanese firms bring in a 3pm finish, once
:00:36. > :00:41.Question is - can it really change a culture that has a word for death
:00:42. > :00:54.Also coming up: Never mind the disability,
:00:55. > :01:03.We're going to meet DJ Total Recall as part of our week long series
:01:04. > :01:10.First, "we want products made in America, made by American hands".
:01:11. > :01:13.That was the pledge of US President Donald Trump
:01:14. > :01:18.when he addressed cheering workers at Boeing last week.
:01:19. > :01:20.And he continued the theme on Thursday when he met
:01:21. > :01:28.with the bosses of more than 20 top US companies at the White House,
:01:29. > :01:31.the likes of General Electric, Lockheed Martin, Ford and Dell.
:01:32. > :01:34.He told them he plans to to bring millions of manufacturing jobs back
:01:35. > :01:43.According to President Trump's official website,
:01:44. > :01:47.since it signed the North American Free Trade Agreement
:01:48. > :01:50.with Canada and Mexico, known as Nafta, more
:01:51. > :01:54.America has lost nearly one-third of its manufacturing jobs.
:01:55. > :01:57.And I tell you what, official numbers do seem to back
:01:58. > :02:00.America's Bureau of Labour Statistics says five million factory
:02:01. > :02:06.That's left just 12.3 million Americans employed
:02:07. > :02:08.in manufacturing, well under one in ten
:02:09. > :02:13.Definitely a huge decline from the one in four who worked
:02:14. > :02:18.But are bad trade deals and cheap Mexican and Chinese labour
:02:19. > :02:39.Or is it simply the march of technology?
:02:40. > :02:42.One recent study by Ball State University says the vast majority
:02:43. > :02:44.of these jobs, 85%, have gone because of automation.
:02:45. > :02:48.Persuading companies to reverse this trend could be difficult.
:02:49. > :02:51.The Boston Consulting Group estimates that a human welder costs
:02:52. > :02:54.$25 an hour to employ, while a robot costs less
:02:55. > :03:01.than a third of that, around $8, to do the same job.
:03:02. > :03:04.Still, President Trump told the assembled CEOs he's already
:03:05. > :03:13.Bringing manufacturing back to America, creating high wage jobs,
:03:14. > :03:16.was one of our campaign promises and themes and it resonated
:03:17. > :03:23.with everybody, it was really something what happened.
:03:24. > :03:27.States that hadn't been won in many, many years were, they came over
:03:28. > :03:35.to our fold, a lot of it had to do with the jobs and other reasons,
:03:36. > :03:39.but jobs, and I'm delivering on everything that we've said.
:03:40. > :03:42.In fact, people are saying they've never have seen so much happen
:03:43. > :03:49.Julian Howard is Head of Multi-Asset Solutions at GAM,
:03:50. > :04:06.The awful day! Certainly on the campaign trail, where President
:04:07. > :04:12.Trump said he would bring back jobs, we look at the American economy is
:04:13. > :04:18.almost a title that unemployment fall. Those who want a job can get
:04:19. > :04:23.on. That seems to be the case. The employment rate seems quite good as
:04:24. > :04:29.a headline number, but when you look at the participation rate it isn't
:04:30. > :04:32.that high. Many groups of people aren't as employed as they were
:04:33. > :04:37.before the 2000 a crisis. Certain groups of white working class
:04:38. > :04:43.males... There have been studies on them, they are playing a lot of
:04:44. > :04:46.video games and the drug crisis. Unemployment is higher. So the US
:04:47. > :04:49.economy seems to have low unemployment, but under the surface
:04:50. > :04:54.many groups aren't participating in the recovery. Whether or not
:04:55. > :04:59.President Trump is targeting those particular groups, it appears he
:05:00. > :05:02.doesn't want to just get people back to work, he wants to put people into
:05:03. > :05:11.factories. That's almost like back to the future! Very costly for
:05:12. > :05:17.companies, isn't it? I think it's a romantic motion and conjures up
:05:18. > :05:22.these 1940s posters, making America great. We saw this in a campaign
:05:23. > :05:27.trail as well, images of big Mossley people with hammers. But
:05:28. > :05:30.manufacturing has changed eon recognition. You alluded to the many
:05:31. > :05:38.jobs lost in manufacturing since 2000, but a lot of that has been
:05:39. > :05:43.replaced by more high-tech, more competitive stuff at a dozen neither
:05:44. > :05:48.labour it used to. I that a lot lot of these corporate bosses, when we
:05:49. > :05:56.saw the footage yesterday, they didn't seem to push back and say, we
:05:57. > :05:59.can't do that! -- argue was -- are you surprised. It is extraordinaire.
:06:00. > :06:07.The only real push back within has been on immigration. In terms of
:06:08. > :06:10.these manufacturing CEOs aren't surprised there wasn't resistance to
:06:11. > :06:14.what is essentially a Ford Concept. Who goes to a business meeting where
:06:15. > :06:19.the number-1 agenda is about how to create jobs. It is usually about
:06:20. > :06:24.what resources you can apply. This was an extraordinary investment
:06:25. > :06:30.meeting about jobs and just particularly jobs. It doesn't make
:06:31. > :06:36.sense. I've got to wrap up, briefly, wouldn't a creative President Trump
:06:37. > :06:40.and his team be looking at creating new industries as opposed to looking
:06:41. > :06:45.at all the manufacturing? And here is the contradiction. Elon Musk has
:06:46. > :06:51.been hanging out at the White House and we see this contradiction. They
:06:52. > :06:55.wanted to create this old-fashioned manufacturing industry, and yet
:06:56. > :06:56.Donald Trump does have his eye on the future industries. Thank you for
:06:57. > :06:57.coming in. We're also in Japan,
:06:58. > :07:00.where thousands of workers will be It's part of a drive
:07:01. > :07:08.by the government and business groups to tackle overwork and it's
:07:09. > :07:11.being called Premium Friday. The idea is companies make staff go
:07:12. > :07:15.home at 3pm on the last Friday Death from overwork in Japan is such
:07:16. > :07:21.a longstanding problem it even Now all week we've been bringing
:07:22. > :08:45.you a series of reports and interviews on disability
:08:46. > :08:47.and the workplace. We're finishing with a story
:08:48. > :08:56.from the music business. A DJ has been telling us about his
:08:57. > :09:15.passion for music. Take a look. I struggled a lot getting into it.
:09:16. > :09:20.I've got the CV properly done and I applied for things and never heard
:09:21. > :09:22.anything back. There's always some situation that happens and then I
:09:23. > :09:33.ended up at the music. I applied for a job online. There
:09:34. > :09:37.was a section in the application which states, have you got any
:09:38. > :09:42.disabilities, if so please specify. I specified and they also attached a
:09:43. > :09:46.piece of paper. I went to the interview and all of a sudden this
:09:47. > :09:52.guy came over, put his hand on my shoulder and said, you won't be able
:09:53. > :09:58.to do this. I was like, what? Why am I here? It was really embarrassing.
:09:59. > :10:04.It was. How long did it take you to get over it? A good few months.
:10:05. > :10:13.Music means everything to me. It is my life, my passion, my drive, I
:10:14. > :10:19.sold. Everything. It's just me. -- my soul. I was very self-conscious
:10:20. > :10:23.at one time. A jacket on, sweating, just to cover it up. Then in a
:10:24. > :10:28.transition moment, going from that to doing this in front of 2000 kids,
:10:29. > :10:37.which is 4000 eyes, mind blowing. You can find more on our special
:10:38. > :10:45.coverage of this issue and how businesses are dealing
:10:46. > :10:54.with it at bbc.com/disability. I will be back to have a look at the
:10:55. > :10:58.papers from around the world.